Frederic Remington, Evening on a Canadian Lake,
1905, Collection of William I. Koch, Palm Beach, Florida

Remington was his own harshest critic, for in the same year that he voiced
this frustration he also completed two of his finest nocturnes.In Evening
on a Canadian Lake, an alarming sound or movement outside the
picture plane has caught the attention of the figures in the canoe. The
subject of their interest remains unknown. Remington explained his artistic
approach: "Cut down and out—do your hardest work outside the
picture, and let your audience take away something to think about—to
imagine."